Tiny Tanks

Tiny Tanks has had an unusual development history. It launched into Early Access in April 2019, received a handful of updates through October 2019, then went completely silent for over six years. The developer (Jannik) acknowledged this in an August 2025 post, explaining that the team burned out after mixed reviews and financial struggles, with no updates since October 2019. In August 2024, Jannik began rebuilding the game from scratch solo in his spare time. On November 20, 2025, he released a major new version — essentially a full relaunch of Tiny Tanks on updated technology. In that post, Jannik was transparent that this release is a work in progress: only five game modes are currently available, the level editor has been removed, AI is still simple, and game/weapon balance is not final. He explicitly listed what comes next: adding more game modes and maps, adding more weapons, gathering and implementing player feedback, and ongoing bug fixing. A hotfix followed on November 23, 2025, addressing controller and localization issues. The game remains in Early Access and the developer's own words confirm it is not yet feature-complete. The most recent developer communication was November 23, 2025. As of October 8, 2026, that is nearly 11 months without a new post. This is a solo developer working in his spare time alongside a full-time job, so a longer gap between communications is not unusual for this project — the November 2025 relaunch itself came after a full rebuild, and no completion or abandonment statement has been made. The developer has not announced that development is ending, and the game still carries all the markers of an unfinished Early Access product with explicitly stated future content plans.